Tag-holder for shoe-racks.



F. A. PUTNAM. TAG HOLDER FOB SHOE BACKS.

APPLIOATIOH FILED FEB. 11, 190B.

Patented Jan. 12,1909.

UNITED STATES ATENT OFFICE.

- FRED A. PUTNAM, OF MELROSE, MASSACHUSETTS, ASSIGNOB TO SEWING MACHINE SUPPLIES COMPANY, OF P STON, MASSACHUSETTS, A CORPORATION OF MASSACHUSETTS.

TAG-HOLDER ron snoE-Racxs.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Jan. 12, 1909.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, FRED A. PUTNAM, a citizen of the .United States, residinglat Melrose, county of Middlesex, and State of Massachusetts, have invented an Improvement in Tag-Holders for Shoe-Racks, of which the following description, in connection with the accompanymg'drawing, is a as lasting, sole leveling, stitching, etc. It

often happens that the lot of shoes on some particular rack requires some special instructions concerning their manufacture, and it is now the common practice to place upon a rack containing a lot of shoes which thus need special instructions a tag containing such instructions.

It is the object of my invention to pro vide a novel tag-holder which can be quickly secured to or removed from the rack and which will be held firmly in its position .when applied to the rack.

Referring now to the drawings wherein I have shown one embodiment of my invention,Figure 1 is a perspective view of a shoerack to which my. 1mproved tag-holder is to be applied; Fi 2 is a side view on an enlarge scale of the tag-holder; Fig. 3 is a section on the line w-w, F' 2 Fig. 4 is a top plan view of the tag-holder support.

3 designates a shoe-rack which may be of any suitable or usual construction and to which my improved tag-holder is to be applied.

My improved tag-holder is made from a piece of wire and is shaped to form the resilient stem 4 having the clip ortion 5 at the u per'end thereof and the aterally-extended arm :7 at the lower end thereof. The clip portion 'can be-conveniently formed by bending the end of the wire into a coil, as shown m Figs. 2 and 3 between the turns of which the tag or label 6 may be inserted.

The stem 4 1s supported by the rack by means of a supportmg member 8 which 1s the rack.

adapted to be permanently secured to the rack. This su porting member may be made of sheet meta and 1s formed at its lower end with the eye or hinge portion 9 into which the laterally-bent arm 7 may be inserted, and it is also formed at its upper end with the catch 10 which is adapted to en'- gage the stem and hold it in proper position- This catch 10 may convenlently be formed by bending the upper edge of the sheet metal supporting member 8 to form the flange 11, and then shaping said flange to form the catch. The catch stands substantially in line with one end'of the hinge portion 9, as best seen in Fig. 2.

The supporting member 8 is intended to be firmly secured to the rack and whenever it is desired to apply a tag or label to the rack, the operator takes a wire holder 4 and inserts. the .arm 7 into the eye 9 while the stem is in the dotted line position Fig. 3, and then said stem is swung into the vertical position shown in full lines Fig. 3. In movmg into the vertical position, the stem snaps in behind the catch 10 and the resiliency of the stem holds it firmly behind the catch. The tag or label 6 with the proper directions thereon is then inserted in the coil 5. To remove the tag-holder it is simply necessary to swing the stem 4 to the left, Fig. 2, sufficiently to disconnect said stem from the catch 10 when said stem may be swung into the dotted line position Fig. 3 and then removed laterally from the eye 9.

My tag-holder is ve simple to make and may be quickly applie to or removed from Havin fully described my invention, what I c aim as new and desire to secure by Letters Patent is 1. The combination with a shoe-rack, of a supporting member secured thereto, said supportin member being provided with a catch, an a ta -holder presenting a resilient stem hinge to the supporting member but removable therefrom and adapted to be engaged by the catch when it is in operative position, said tag-holder presenting at its upper end a tag-receiving clip.

2. The combination with a shoe-rack, of a supporting member secured thereto and prov1 ed with a catch and a hinge member, a tag-holder resenting a resilient stem having a latera ly-extending arm at one end adapted to be inserted into the hinge member,;and a tag-holding clip at the other end, I clip and at the other end-a laterally-extendsaid catch being positioned to engage the 1 ing arm to be received in the hinge member,

stem of the'tag-holder when the latter lies I said catch being positioned to engage the 15 against the supporting member thereby to stem and hold the latter against the body 5 maintain said tag-holder in Vertical position. of the supporting member.

3. A tag-hol r for shoe-racks compris- In testimony whereof, I have signed my ing a supporting member made of sheet name to this specification, in the presence metal and having one edge curled up to of two subscribing witnesses. form a hinge member ,and the opposite end FRED A. PUTNAM.

10 bent to form a lateral flange provided with Witnesses:

a catch, and a wire member presenting a re- ETHEL G. LONGFELLOW, silient stem having at one end a tag-holding l R. S. PRE LE. 

